Selling Patterns to EU Countries

I don’t know how many of you have heard that there will be changes to how VAT is collected on digital products starting January 1st for EU countries.

VAT will now be charged based on where the customer is located not the seller. Meaning you will have to pay VAT on top of the cost of the pattern. The amount you will pay varies as each country has its own tax. While I don’t like these new rules, I have to follow them.

In order to keep selling my patterns to everyone, I have chosen to use Ravelry’s solution of selling to these countries using Loveknitting.com. They collect and file the tax so I don’t have to. Can you imagine having to file taxes to 28 countries?

Please take a moment to read this for complete information: 

http://www.ravelry.com/content/vat/loveknitting

The good news is that patterns will still be added to your ravelry accounts and you can pay using your PayPal account as usual.

Patterns have been imported to Love Knitting and are waiting to be approved and published. They may be temporarily unavailable to people in these countries for a couple of days.

Loveknitting.com is resolving the problem of filing the taxes myself for my Ravelry pattern shop but a similar option is not available for Craftsy so I have decided to close my Craftsy shop. All my patterns will be available through Ravelry and LoveKnitting only from now on. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Adriana